Jianan Yuan

Mr. Yuan practices in the Beijing office of JunHe as senior partner and head of infrastructure & project finance group. Prior to joining JunHe in 2007, Mr. Yuan worked at Junyi Law Office as one of founding partners from 1996 and Clifford Chance’s London and Hong Kong offices on secondment for one year (1998-1999) and C&C Law Office as associate from 1993 to 1996.

Mr. Yuan has over 30 years of experience in infrastructure investment and finance transactions, covering energy, communication, water and waste projects, and dealing with related tendering and bidding, mergers and acquisitions. His most recent experience is in the areas of foreign-invested seawater desalination and communication, municipal solid waste incineration and treatment, nuclear power, coal chemicals, reorganization, renovation and upgrading of water and wastewater treatment projects. He has also led legal services in several urban subway public and private partnership (PPP) projects in China, the acquisition of a water technical and engineering company by an environmental group in Sweden and the M&A financing involving iron ore mines in Australia and coal mines in Canada.

He has been ranked by Chambers Asia Pacific as Senior Statespeople in Projects & Infrastructure and by Legal 500 as Hall of Fame in Projects and Energy.

Admitted to practice law in the People’s Republic of China since 1993.

Member of the All-China Bar Association.

2018 Merger and Acquisition of Companies (2nd Edition), co-associate editor, China Renmin University Press (in Chinese)

2014 Merger and Acquisition of Companies, co-associate editor, China Renmin University Press (in Chinese)

2012 Speech on Chinese Nuclear Liability Issues for 2012 annual meeting of INLA Congress (in English)

2009 Establishing and Financing Utilities Projects in China, Financier Worldwide, Issue 80 August 2009 (in English)

2006 Privatisation in China – Now on The Road, Euromoney Yearbooks (Review 2006/2007) – Privatisation & Public Private Partnership (in English)

2006 Practice of Tendering and Bidding for Water Concession Projects (co-author, China Chemical Press) (in Chinese)

2005 Speeches for the Urban Water Forum-2005 and the seminar on local legislation of urban infrastructural concession (in Chinese)

2004 several articles on concession regarding urban infrastructural and public utilities, China Law & Practice (in English)

2002 Outside Councel’s Role in a Nuclear Power Project, China Nuclear Industry (in Chinese)

• China National Nuclear Corporation

• China National Petroleum Corporation

• China National Nuclear Corporation Overseas Ltd.

• China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd.

• China Minsheng Banking Corporation Limited

• CITIC Press Corporation

• Beijing Drainage Group Co., Ltd.

• PJSC Acron

• Westinghouse Electric Company LLC

Mr. Yuan was listed as legal expert in the Expert Databases of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance of the PRC.

Peking University/Law Department

LL.B.

1985 - 1989

Peking University/Law Department

LL.M.

1989 - 1993

UC Berkeley School of Law

LL.M.

2007 - 2008